Examining the middle classes in multiple sites of social action, this book looks at the historical evolution of these classes - their changing relationships with colonial power, the Indian state and other social groups - as well as their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India.
Examining the middle classes in multiple sites of social action, this book looks at the historical evolution of these classes - their changing relationships with colonial power, the Indian state and other social groups - as well as their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Amita Baviskar is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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List of Abbreviations Glossary Acknowledgements 1. Introduction/Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and 2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization/E. Sridharan 3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Refl ections on India's 'New' Middle Class/Leela Fernandes 4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India/Sanjay Joshi 5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan/Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph 6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle class?/Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey Being and becoming middle class: Work, domesticity and 7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the 'New India'/Carol Upadhya 8. Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle class India/Smitha Radhakrishnan 9. The Middle class Child: Ruminations on Failure/Nita Kumar 10. The Middle Classes at Home/Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray 11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present/Patricia Uberoi 12. Privatization, Profi t and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms on Working Lives/Ruchira Ganguly Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase Middle class politics, citizenship and the public 13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle class Technology/William Mazzarella 14. Urban Spaces, Disney divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi/Sanjay Srivastava 15. Cows, Cars and Cycle rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets/Amita Baviskar Bibliography About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index.
List of Abbreviations Glossary Acknowledgements 1. Introduction/Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and 2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization/E. Sridharan 3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Refl ections on India's 'New' Middle Class/Leela Fernandes 4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India/Sanjay Joshi 5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan/Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph 6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle class?/Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey Being and becoming middle class: Work, domesticity and 7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the 'New India'/Carol Upadhya 8. Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle class India/Smitha Radhakrishnan 9. The Middle class Child: Ruminations on Failure/Nita Kumar 10. The Middle Classes at Home/Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray 11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present/Patricia Uberoi 12. Privatization, Profi t and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms on Working Lives/Ruchira Ganguly Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase Middle class politics, citizenship and the public 13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle class Technology/William Mazzarella 14. Urban Spaces, Disney divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi/Sanjay Srivastava 15. Cows, Cars and Cycle rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets/Amita Baviskar Bibliography About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index.
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